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  NEW YORK (CITY) - LoveToKnow Article on NEW YORK (CITY)
New York University was chartered in 1831 as the University of the City of New York, and in 1896 received its present iiame.
New York county elects a surrogate for a term of fourteen years, and Kings has two county judges; but in Queens and Richmond the county and surrogate courts are the same as in other counties of the state.
The New York proletariat and unscrupulous politicians complained that the measure was peculiarly oppressive to the poor, and the rioting with which it was resisted was protracted and bloody.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /N/NE/NEW_YORK_CITY_.htm   (15430 words)

  
 New York City   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Prior to 1898, New York City consisted of Manhattan and the Bronx, which was annexed by the city from southern Westchester County in two separate actions: the western portion in 1874, and the remaining portion in 1895.
New York City is sited among an archipelago of islands astride the Atlantic Ocean off the Eastern Seaboard of North America, surrounding the fine New York Harbor, which was the very reason for the city's founding.
Upper New York Bay is surrounded by Manhattan, Brooklyn, Staten Island, and the coast of New Jersey, and is connected by the Narrows between Brooklyn and Staten Island to Lower New York Bay, which is partially surrounded by Brooklyn, Staten Island, and the coast of New Jersey, and is open to the Atlantic Ocean.
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 Category:New York City landmarks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is mass renaming of multiple categories with similar but inconsistent form, with a suggested new name of Category:Landmarks of New York City for this category.
For widely recognized landmarks in and around New York City, New York.
List of famous buildings, sites, and monuments in New York City
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Category:New_York_City_landmarks   (219 words)

  
 New York City 2300
The Greater New York Area is bound up in technocratic agencies that are essential to the functioning of the city and its economic hinterlands, yet the area is divided up amongst three states, each with a capital that must balance the concerns of the city against the remainder of the state.
New York is still home to many of the surviving successor organizations, elements of the United Nations that found ways of continuing their work when the rest of the organization disbanded.
New York is the city of the old fashioned face to face deal, and the great exchanges of the Financial district are still alive, in one form or another.
www.geocities.com /levybenathome/NYC2300   (18272 words)

  
 New York City landmarks   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The New York Sock Exchange (NYSE) is one of the largest stock exchanges in the world.
The NYSE is operated by the not-for-profit corporation New York Stock Exchange, Inc, with its main building located at 18 Broad Street, at the corner of Wall Street, in New York, New York, New York, United States NYSE is home to some 2,800 companies valued at nearly $15 trillion in global market capitalization.
On March 8, 1817 the organization drafted a constitution and renamed itself the New York Stock & Exchange Board.
read-and-go.hopto.org /New-York-City-landmarks   (638 words)

  
 madison square garden
Subsequently a new Garden was built at 50th Street and 8th Avenue, and the current Garden is sited on top of Pennsylvania Station at 33rd Street and 7th Avenue.
The Garden is best known for the New York Knicks (basketball) and New York Rangers (ice hockey), professional sports teams that play their home matches in the arena.
It is also the location of the circus when it comes to New York City, and almost any other kind of indoor activities that draw large audiences.
www.fact-library.com /madison_square_garden.html   (473 words)

  
 Museums and Museum Sites
Pierpont Morgan Library Both a museum and a center for scholarly research, the Morgan Library is an extraordinary complex of buildings in the heart of New York City.
Housed in an award-winning building in downtown Portland.
While the arts and crafts museums are the most famous, the city also claims top-notch museums in architecture, natural history, television, radio and technology.
www.art-design.umich.edu /mother/museums.html   (5263 words)

  
 TOURS IN & AROUND NEW YORK
This section is divided into two sections, "All City Tours" and "Theme and Area Tours." The first contains tours which take you all around the city to the major sights while the second contains tours on a theme (fashion design) or area (Harlem, Chinatown).
City Pass City Pass tickets give you admission to six of New York's top attractions.
New York Visions Tours of Manhattan neighborhoods, Brooklyn and Bronx.
www.citidex.com /950.htm   (1626 words)

  
 The Iraq War & Archaeology
The ongoing plunder of archaeological sites throughout Iraq too was a predictable and predicted catastrophe.
New Equipment for Iraqi Archeologists," in NewsBlaze, online, [January 10, 2006]: "Thanks to MultiNational Division Central-South, in the beginning of 2006, the archaeology department of the University in Ad Diwaniyah city received 25 computers and a satellite internet server.
At Home With Bruce Feiler," in The New York Times, December 29, 2005: "'I believe as a traveler that you fundamentally leave a part of yourself every place that you go, and you fundamentally bring a piece of every place that you go back with you,' Mr.
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 New York for New Yorkers : A Historical Treasury and Guide to the Buildings and Monuments of Manhattan
New York for New Yorkers : A Historical Treasury and Guide to the Buildings and Monuments of Manhattan
This guide to the city covers much more than the usual tourist-guidebook sights: it provides information on what to see, who built it, and what else was going on in America when it was built.
It looks at not only the famous structures but many fascinating lesser-known ones, and includes a running timeline of the important events in New York's history, a fascinating look at the origins of the city's street names, and a list of some of the books and films that have featured the city.
www.allbookstores.com /book/0393038831   (163 words)

  
 Roadside Location List
Signs and Theatres from various cities do not appear on this list but are instead included in the "various" links at the bottom of each state list.
York: Brown's Old-Fashioned Ice Cream, York Beach Dairy Bar
New York: diners/, Horn & Hardart's Automats, Papaya King, Katz's Deli, Giant Needle & Button, Gulf Station, Howard Johnson's, Waikiki Wally's, Carousels, Art Deco buildings, State Insurance Fund Building, former Maritime Building, B Bar and Grill, Mercedes-Benz showroom, Civic Center Synagogue, Calhoun School, Church of the Crucifixion, Metropolitan Hotel, Guggenheim Bandshell
www.agilitynut.com /roadside2.html   (2417 words)

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